Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-08
MERE METNION.
April showers.


Cherry trees have begun to blossom.
Mr.. P. Judson, of Tacoma, visited
OLYMPIA this week.
The Puget Sound Pipe Factory shut
down, this week, for repairs.
Gov. Squire has been on visit to
the capital the past few days.
Mr.. Henry Sabin is just recovering
from an attack of brain fever.
Mr.. Louis Bettman returned from
San Francisco, last Sunday evening.
We call attention to the advertise
ment OF l.. Bettman, in another col
umn.
Thomas Quiglev and Albert Shazer,
loggers, have met with painful injuries,
the past week.
The City Marshal is enforcing the
ordinance relative to animals running
al large on the Eastside.
The White House is in receipt of
splendid assortment of goods, selected
by Mr.. Chem in person.
A supply of ammunition was
shipped to-day to Seattle on requisition
of the local military officers.
Married, in Olympia, April 9Th, by
Rev. w. B. Lee, Mr.. Allie Labree and
Miss Carrie H. Root, all of this city.
The proprietor of the Gold Bar Res
,taurant regales his customers with
fresh maple sugar all the way from
Canada.
Now that hunters are restrained by
legal enactment, the little fishes are
coming to the relief by swarming about
the wharves.
The Collegiate Institute closes its
present term next Friday, when anoth-
er term of ten weeks will begin with
out any vacation.
Thomas H. Cava naugh, of the Parti-
san, left yesterday morning, for his
former residence in Kansas, to be alb
sent about four weeks.
That ubiquitous chap, the Oldest in
habitant says he never knew the streets
of Olympia to be so free from idle men
as at the present time.
The Youths Brass Band will begin
series of social dances in Columbia
Hall, Monday evening, to raise money
for the purchase of instruments.
The sidewalk in front of Mr.. Will
iams' store has been jammed with the
new stock of h. .rdware, glassware, etc.,
Just received by rail and steamer.
Messrs. Work & White have the con-
tract for refitting the residence of w.
E. Anderson, of Eastside. The whole
house is to be repapered, kalsomined
and painted.
Mr. Albert o. Damon, of Gray's
Harbor, has been in town during the
week, and gives an encouraging report
of the business outlook in the lower
Chehalis Valley.
VIM. Zimmerman is fitting up the
building adjoining the Schooner saloon,
on Main street, fol; i restaurant and
chop house. He expects to open
about the 18th instant.
Rev. G. C. Otis, Missionary Superin.
tendant, will hold services in the Con
gregationar churtH, = next Sabbath
morning and evening. A full attend
ance of the church and society is very
much desired.
Carpenters are at work remodelling
and fitting up Sam McClelland's new
residence adjoining his place of bust
ness. When finished, this will be q
tidy place and an ornament to lower
Washington street.
The Main street wharf extension
will be $50 feet, making total length
Of $50 feet when completed, with an 1
40 by GO feet. Bids for construction
win be opened next Wednesday even
ing by the City Council.
The large number of Indians pass
ing through town, this week, is ex-
planned by the fact that an order has
been issued for the removal of the In
dian children from Squaxon Island to
the Chehalis Reservation school.
An Olympia business man who takes
apractical view Of the matter, says
that the new wharf ordered to be bull
nom the foot Of Main street, will be O
splendid entering wedge towards fin
al A number one wharf from the city
front to deep water.
Mr.. John Corkish, Superintendent oil
the Puget Sound Pipe Factory, received
his household goods from Portland
this week, and has taken up his resi-.
dence ct the house on the corner Of
Fourth and Franklin streets, lately va
Gated by Mrs. Robinson.
Read the STANDARDS improvement
items, this week, and then when YOU
hear an old fossil growing about tn,
slow growth Of Olympia, just serve
him as you would serve the man who
attempts to haul down the American
flag, shoot him-out of town.
Miss Annie Connolly returned by
Wednesdays train from five months
visit to Santa Cruz, California, whittier
she has been undergoing a course o.
climatic health treatment. She ap
pears to be considerably improved
Mayor Chambers and wife went ove1